esp32 core dump to flash
1. menuconfig option to select where to store core dump: flash, uart or disable
2. Saving of core dump to flash
3. Partition table definitions files with core dump partition
4. Python scripts to support core dump generation from GDB command line
See merge request !341
The following issues mentioned during MR!341 review were fixed:
1) Core dump test application description
2) Usage of CONFIG_ESP32_ENABLE_COREDUMP_TO_FLASH and CONFIG_ESP32_ENABLE_COREDUMP_TO_UART
3) FLASH_GUARD_START macro usage is fixed in flash API
4) Core dump module logging facility
5) cache util functions doc updated
6) interactive delay before print core dump to uart
7) core dump partion support in build system
Deep sleep stub may call ets_update_cpu_frequency, which has been moved from ROM to IRAM.
Restore the ROM version in the linker script, call it ets_update_cpu_frequency_rom, use it in the deep sleep stub.
1) PS is fixed up to allow GDB backtrace to work properly
2) MR!341 discussion: in core dump module: esp_panicPutXXX was replaced by ets_printf.
3) MR!341 discussion: core dump flash magic number was changed.
4) MR!341 discussion: SPI flash access API was redesigned to allow flexible critical section management.
5) test app for core dump feature was added
6) fixed base64 file reading issues on Windows platform
7) now raw bin core file is deleted upon core loader failure by epscoredump.py
Complimentary changes:
1) Partition table definitions files with core dump partition
2) Special sub-type for core dump partition
3) Special version of spi_flash_xxx
4) espcoredump.py is script to get core dump from flash and print useful info
5) FreeRTOS API was extended to get tasks snapshots
Clean up WiFi & Bluetooth config options
* Splits "WiFi" configuration out from ESP32 configuration submenu to its own menu.
* Renames "BT" to "Bluetooth", enabling Bluetooth is now in this option not the ESP32 submenu.
* Also disables compiling/linking of BT stack if Bluetooth is disabled, saves some build time.
See merge request !397
add wpa2 set id api and modify null data tx description
1. wpa2: add wpa2 set id api
2. low rate: modify null data tx description
See merge request !402
ethernet: support flow control
(1) Only fullduplex mode support flow ctrl .
(2) Fix reboot exception which caused by not-reset EMAC hardware (such as DMA) when reset CPU.
See merge request !392
Add option to automatically set a watchpoint at the end of the swapped-in task
This should make stack overflows easier to debug because it triggers a debug exception as soon as the stack is overwritten, not later when a context switch happens. Marked as a FreeRTOS debug feature because it doesn't give a nice error message and uses up a watchpoint.
See merge request !389
Fix OpenOCD detection code
In the current master, detection of an attached OCD is broken. This fixes it.
I also snuck in two unrelated checks in intr_alloc which return from a function that is asserted earlier in the code. This makes the code behave better when they are called erroneously in a production build.
See merge request !377
SDMMC peripheral driver, SD protocol driver, FATFS library, VFS integration
This MR contains:
- SDMMC host peripheral driver
- SD protocol driver in sdmmc component (can be extended to support MMC/eMMC and SPI based hosts)
- ChaN's FATFS library v0.12b
- VFS integration
- FAT access via VFS is thread-safe (unless same file is read/written/unlinked/renamed from different tasks)
- Support for POSIX directory-related functions in VFS (and in vfs_fatfs.c)
- unit test for the above
- Example
- API documentation
Will be done in other MRs:
- Support for spi_flash IO driver for FatFs
- SPI host driver and support for SPI mode commands in sdmmc component
- MMC/eMMC support in sdmmc component
- Support for slightly higher 53/26.6MHz clocks (currently I'm using 20MHz for DS and 40MHz for HS, instead of 25MHz/50MHz per standard), and arbitrary low clocks (e.g. 4MHz).
See merge request !353
C++ support
This change adds necessary support for compiling C++ programs:
- linking against libstdc++
- implementation of static initialization guards using FreeRTOS primitives: since we don't have condition variables at our disposal, and we don't want to allocate a synchronization primitive for every guard variable generated by the compiler, we imitate condition variables using a combination of a mutex, counting semaphore, and a counter (based on [Microsoft Research paper](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2004/12/ImplementingCVs.pdf), albeit because we don't need *arbitrary* code to use these CVs, implementation gets simpler).
Note that libstdc++ also contains an implementation of `__cxa_guard_{acquire,release,abort}` functions. These implementations come from an `#ifndef GXX_THREADS` branch, i.e. are not aware of multthreading. There are three ways of replacing these libstdc++ functions with our implementation:
1. Move our code into gcc. Pros: cleanest solution. Cons: Such changes are unlikely to be merged by any upstream, so we end up maintaining our own forks of {gcc,crosstool-ng}.
2. Use library as it is built by crosstool, use `ar` to delete one object file (`guards.o`), add this library to ESP-IDF. Pros: easy to implement. Cons: libstdc++ is a 15MB binary 😯
3. Keep using libstdc++ from crosstool, force our implementation to be linked using a `-u` linker flag. Pros: no impact on repo size, easy to implement. Cons: somewhat less clean than 1 (and about as hacky as 2).
For the reasons mentioned, option (3) looks like the best tradeoff.
Ref. TW6702
See merge request !364
Enable bootloader entropy source for RNG
Enables an entropy source when bootloader starts up, which both seeds the RNG for use before WiFi/BT stack is enabled and provides an adequate RNG for secure boot & flash encryption key generation.
A prerequisite was enabling 80MHz operation, so the CPU is now set to 80MHz as soon as second stage bootloader starts running.
See merge request !363
esp32: ets_update_cpu_frequency should set tick scale for both CPUs
ets_update_cpu_frequency ROM function updates g_ticks_per_us, which is has two copies, one for each CPU.
The APP CPU copy of g_ticks_per_us never got updated, resulting in shorter delays produced by ets_delay_us on the APP CPU.
This MR replaces ROM ets_update_cpu_frequency with a copy in IRAM which updates scaling factors on both of the CPUs.
So now we get expected delays (in microseconds):
```
ets_delay_us core=0 expected=50000 actual=50014
ets_delay_us core=1 expected=50000 actual=50015
vTaskDelay core=0 expected=50000 actual=49428
vTaskDelay core=1 expected=50000 actual=50000
```
Reported on the forum: http://esp32.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=713#p3722
See merge request !373
SPI master driver
This merge requests adds an SPI Master driver. This driver is (of course) multithread capable, has device abstraction, has command queueing, DMA support and all other sorts of nice things you'd expect from a SPI driver.
See merge request !332
modify bootloader dram start address, swap app bss and data segments
Modify bootloader dram_seg from address 0x3ffc0000 to 0x3fff0000, len from 0x20000 to 0x10000.
Also put app .data before .bss, to reduce the chance .data collides with ROM bootloader stack.
See merge request !375
This change reduces chances that a large .bss segment will push .data all the way into
0x3ffe1320 — 0x3ffe5320 range where the bootloader stack is, creating a problem when
bootloader will be loading application into memory.
With this change, .data would need to be at least 200k big to cause problems.
